Stanford's Class2Go to partner with edX on online learning

Stanford University is partnering with edX, the online learning nonprofit founded by Harvard University and MIT, in an open-source online learning platform that will be released by June 1.

According to Stanford, edX will release the source code for its platform by June 1 and Stanford will integrate features of its open source Class2Go platform into edX. Then Stanford will "work collaboratively with edX and other institutions to further develop the open source platform."

Stanford will provide its faculty a variety of online learning platforms to choose from, according to Stanford, but will focus platform development efforts on the new combination of Class2Go and edX.